Vegetable-cutter



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

A. T. BLEYLEY, OF OTTUMWA, IOWA.

VEGETABLE-CUTTER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 50,6'79, dated October31, 1865.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, A. T. BLEYLEY, of Ottumwa, in the county of Wapelloand State of Iowa, have invented anew and Improved Vegetable-Gutter; andI do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exactdescription thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to makeand use the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a longitudinalvertical section of the vegetable-cutter, taken in the plane of the line:1: 00, Fig. 2, which is a horizontal section taken in the plane of theline g y, Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a partial side view, and Fig. 4: a sectionthrough it, taken in the plane of the line 2 z, Fig. 3.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

A in the drawings represents the supportingplatform V or frame-work ofthe machine, upon the upper side of which is placed the cylinder-box B,and secured thereto in any proper manner by screws or otherwise. In thecylinder-box B the hollow cylinder (3 is placed in a vertical position,and turns, by its shaft F, in bearings of the top piece, a, of the box,and the cross-tie b of the platform A, which shaft receives motionthrough a bevel-gear, Gr, upon its upper end, interlocking with abevel-gear, H, upon the transverse horizontal shaft I, having acrank-handle, L.

The side posts,JJ,in which the shaft lturns, can beregulated in heightat pleasure by means of wedges 0 c inserted in and tightly holding themin the fixed staples or clasps (Z d of the box.

Around and upon the exterior periphery of the cylinder and extending inthe direction of its length, but at an angle to the same, or, in otherwords spirally about it, are arranged or attached in any proper manner aseries of knifeor cutter blades, E E, by which the'vegetables are out orsliced as their common central cylinder revolves, they being fed theretothrough the side opening, M, of the cylinder box, upon an inclined guidetable or bed, N, attached to the platform A by a pin, h, soas to beeasily detached when desired to get at the knife-cylinder for removingits cutters to sharpen them or to replace them with new ones. The'egetable, as it is out or sliced by the knives, passes through theopening or jaw l of the same into the interior of the knife-cylinder 0,when it falls to the bottom of the machine.

Between each knife-blade I cover the cylinder with a sheet of tin orother suitable metal for protecting the same, and which can be easilyand readily cleansed.

In the use of my vegetable-cutter it is the most advantageous to wedgeit in any proper manner in the top of a tub or other vessel, so that'asthe vegetables are sliced by it they shall fall into the tub, fromwhich, when it is full, they can be readily removed at any time whendesired.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- Thevegetable-cutter arranged and operating substantiallyas shown in thedrawings and herein described.

A. T. BLEYLEY.

Witnesses:

(J. AUWERDA,

PATRICK BRADY.

